Cellmania.com Presents First-ever WAPPY Awards; Award Recognizes Nine Innovators for Best Consumer-oriented Wireless Internet Sites.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers Wireless 2000 Repeating... NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 29, 2000 Cellmania Also Launches "mGuide" Wap Directory Cellmania.com, the Internet's leading wireless commerce site, today announced the winners of the first-ever WAPPY Awards, which recognize consumer WAP (wireless application protocol) sites that provide superior mobile phone content. The awards, sponsored by Cellmania.com, were presented today at the CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. Wireless 2000 Conference in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded . Motorola, BroadVision and American Wireless served as co-sponsors. Strategy.com Selected as Best Overall WAP Site Strategy.com was awarded the highest honor for "Best Overall WAP" for creating a simple intuitive interface that allows consumers to conduct a wide variety of tasks via a phone-based Internet, including researching and electronically mailing articles, setting up a stock portfolio, or tracking lottery lottery, scheme for distributing prizes by lot or other method of chance selection to persons who have paid for the opportunity to win. The term is not applicable when lots are drawn without payment by the interested parties to determine some matter, e.g. ticket numbers. "While many companies are already providing excellent content to Web-enabled phones, Strategy.com wins the war by giving the best `gee-whiz effect' over the phone," said Dr. Ronjon Nag, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and co-founder of Cellmania.com, which administered the awards. "Our contest judges felt Strategy.com understood the WAP format better than anyone else." Other WAPPY Award winners include: Yahoo (Best Portal); Wapmore (Best Entertainment); SportsFeed (Best Sports); Fast WAP Search (Best Search Engine), Hotelguide.com (Best Travel), InfoSpace (Best Reference Site), Strategy.com (Best News), MailandNews.com (Best Personal Productivity), and Amazon.com (Best Shopping). A panel of WAP experts reviewed more than 500 sites before selecting the winners. The judging was based on five criteria: overall usefulness to the mobile consumer, content, ease of use and navigation, interactivity and robustness of site. Cellmania.com "mGuide" Features Comprehensive Reviews of WAP Sites In conjunction with the WAPPY Awards, Cellmania.com also today announced the launch of "mGuide" -- a directory of the best WAP sites around the world and the first WAP directory to feature comprehensive ratings and reviews. "The WAPPY Awards gave us the chance to review the world's best WAP sites, so we thought it only fitting to share those sites with the m-commerce consumer," said Nag. "We believe the mobile customer is much more interested in quality sites than in quantity -- when you seek stock quotes via your phone, you want the top three sites that work in your language, in your part of the world and on your equipment. Our WAP editors test each application live on the phone before including it in the directory." "mGuide" is available from the Web and from the phone at www.cellmania.com/mguide. The Web version allows customers to emulate em·u·late tr.v. em·u·lat·ed, em·u·lat·ing, em·u·lates 1. To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation: an older pupil whose accomplishments and style I emulated. 2. the sites so they don't have to spend expensive airtime air·time n. 1. The time during which a radio or television station is broadcasting. Also called airspace. 2. The time at which a radio or television program is broadcast. on their phone. Customers are also able to research and purchase a wide range of Internet-capable wireless phones from Cellmania.com. About CellMania.com Cellmania.com is an information resource and online store for all wireless products such as cellular phones, pagers and accessories and provides expert advice and community-generated product ratings. Cellmania.com covers the entire United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and offers more than 50 phones and 10,000 service plans from leading manufacturers such as Motorola, Nokia and Ericsson. It also has more than 50 service providers such as Sprint PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. , AT&T, Nextel and GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) . In addition to its newly launched "mGuide" directory of the best WAP applications that deliver Internet content to phones, Cellmania.com also delivers value -added services such as customized content to data-enabled communications devices Typically refers to a terminal used to send voice, video or text. Mobile phones, wireless PDAs and personal computers equipped with microphones, speakers and cameras are all considered communications devices. See modem. . Cellmania.com is based in Mountain View, Calif., and was founded in 1999 by Dr. Ronjon Nag and Neerav Berry Berry, former province, France Berry (bĕrē`), former province, central France. Bourges, the capital, and Châteauroux are the chief towns. , vice president of marketing. For more information about the WAPPY Awards winners or to submit your entry, visit www.cellmania.com. |
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